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Subject: CANDOR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CANDID CANDIDATE; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When john was contending (though sure to be beat)
Last Line: "the objection will cease by the time I am in it!"
Subject(s): Candor; Political Campaigns


APOLOGY FOR KINGS, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As want of candor really is not right
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Candor; Courts And Courtiers


CANDID ASSESSMENT, by VONNA ADRIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: W. Aloysius merrick %admits his poems
Subject(s): Candor; Poetry And Poets


CANDOR, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know what you're going to say,' she said
Subject(s): Candor


CANDOR, by THOMAS OTWAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You talk to me in parables
Subject(s): Candor


CANDOR, MY TEPID FRIEND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are its iniquity
Subject(s): Candor


GOTHIC MUD, by JOHN OLSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A larger candor is necessary
Last Line: & the mud is a mode %of thought, an eye %or zither weaving a marble light
Subject(s): Candor


LIGHT OF MOTION, by ROBERT MORGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What candor in acceleration!
Last Line: Where nothing's naked as motion %that makes sad matter sing
Subject(s): Candor


ON HIS CANDID AND UNCANDID READERS, by JOHN OWEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My good are excellent, the candid say
Last Line: And without mercy censure all the rest.
Subject(s): Candor; Criticism & Critics


OVER-CANDID; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bouncing bess, discoursing free
Last Line: Ever would have guessed it!
Subject(s): Candor


REMEMBERING THE SEA ELEPHANT, by WILLIAM PITT ROOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perhaps it is time for candor
Subject(s): Candor; Environment; Sea Monsters


TOO CANDID BY HALF; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As tom and his wife were discoursing one day
Last Line: "quoth tom, ""so they said at our marriage!"
Subject(s): Candor